One’s sense of proportion, battered out of all shape in the daily life of
cities, reasserts itself. She aimed directly at Rhea’s head. And now she insisted that she MUST leave the
chastened security of the Tredgold Women’s College for Russell’s unbridled
classes, and wanted to go to fancy dress dances in pirate costume and spend the
residue of the night with Widgett’s ramshackle girls in some indescribable hotel
in Soho!
He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the situation and his
sister had become altogether too urgent. But the people among whom she was now thrown through the
social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came
up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and
introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the
way to an evening of meandering talk in a studio—carried with them like an
atmosphere this implication, not only that the world was in some stupid and even
obvious way WRONG, with which indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but
that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and
indiscriminately “advanced,” for the new order to achieve itself. Then Ramage appeared with effusion, and ushered her into his inner
apartment. "I have not trusted you. She had animated dark blue-gray eyes under her fine eyebrows, and
dark brown hair that rolled back simply and effectively from her broad low
forehead. Luck. She had had two days of employment-seeking now. Satisfied that he had solved his difficulty, he proceeded to his room. "Altogether unsuccessful, Sir," said the chief turnkey, with a look of
disappointment, not unmixed with apprehension, as he approached Wild. But indeed that is not at all
a good description of her attitude. CHAPTER XXIV
Spurlock's novel was a tale of regeneration.
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